No
city in Bavaria has more historic buildings in proportion to its
inhabitants than Fürth – over 2,000. This photograph of Schwabacherstraße on the left shows Jews forced to wear the yellow star. This is
the town where Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, was born on
September 12, 1885. The other photos show Schwabacher strasse 1941 and
me standing at the same spot today.

The Volksschule at Schwabacherstraße 86 in the summer of 1934 during preparations for the referendum on the creation of a new head of state of the German Reich which resulted in 89.9% (Fürth: 90.6%) of voters confirming the merger of the offices of the President and the Chancellor in the person of Adolf Hitler (August 19, 1934)

The former Braunes Haus, the Nazi Party headquarters in Fürth, on Nürnberger Straße 7 in 1935 and today.

Hitler
spoke at Geismannsaal on March 27, 1928. It had served as the main hall
of Fürth's Geismann brewery was the largest ballroom and meeting place
in the city centre The building was bombed in 1943 and eventually torn
down altogether in 1982, with only a few reminders left of its original
building.

In front of the Jewish Museum of Franconia which opened in 1998. Inside archaeologists had discovered a Mikvah (ritual bath). Behind is the Fürth town hall in the background. Below is a photograph of the rathaussaal during the Nazi era. Jews were collected at the entrance before being deported. The period photo shows Julius Streicher on the balcony above the entrance in 1933 (and me in front today) at a time when there were 1990 Jews in Fürth; by early 1938 this number had been lowered to 1400. In November 1938, there were about 1200 when the synagogue was destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogroms, and 132 Jews were deported to Dachau. All but an handful of those who remained in Fürth after Kristallnacht either fled while they still could (abroad or to other areas in Germany) or were deported to concentration camps and/or death camps; virtually all those who remained in Germany were deported to their deaths. By 1944, perhaps 23 Jews were left in Fürth. Overall, 1068 Jews from Fürth died in the Holocaust. After the end of the Second World War, a Displaced persons camp for Jewish Holocaust survivors was established in Fürth (Finkenschlag). In 1945 it housed 850 inhabitants; it was shut down in July 1950.

The Stadttheater and railway station in 1940 and today

American war-criminal Henry Kissinger was born here on the first floor at Mathildenstraße in 1923. His family had fled Nuremberg before Kristallnacht. He later joked that Anwar Sadat, who had learned German in prison,
spoke with a better accent than he did. Apparently Kissinger, during his first visit to Israel, had to be "persuaded" to visit Yad Vashem, and accepted only when he was told that every other foreign minister visiting Israel had done so.Christopher Hitchens: How Can Anyone Defend Kissinger Now? The Nixon tapes remind us what a vile creature Henry Kissinger is. It is now claimed after evidence recently unearthed by a German academic, political scientist Stefanie Waske, that Kissinger once discussed a coup with disgruntled Nazis to overthrow the West German government in the 1970s. Kissinger and Richard Nixon were aggrieved at the left-leaning government of the day’s burgeoning friendship with the hardline East German government. Kissinger became the contact man for a secret spy network made up of old Nazis and elite aristocrats aimed at torpedoing the plans formulated by Chancellor Willy Brandt.Zirndorf

Just south of Fürth, Adolf-Hitler-Platz then and now with the church in the background.

Zirndorf has come to the point where it is the latest in the summer of 2016's war against Europeans as a bomb attempt took place near a migration centre in Germany via a suitcase full of aerosol cans. The targeted building provides refugee accommodation and houses a branch of the country's office for asylum-seekers. Photographs from the scene showed police officers surrounding the remains of a suitcase on a footpath, which lies about 200 metres from the reception centre. It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast or whether there were any casualties. The area in northern Bavaria had by then seen two attacks by Muslims in the past ten days. Failed Syrian asylum seeker Mohammad Daleel succeeded in blowing himself up in a suicide bombing outside a music festival in tAnsbach after having pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis. Earlier the same day another of the countless young Arab men of fighting age launched an attack in Reutlingen, killing a pregnant woman with a machete and injuring several others.

Altdorf bei Nürnberg

Adolf Hitler Platz then and now, extensively revamped

Erlangen

This town of 100,000 is located just over ten miles north of Nuremberg. There are two notable examples of reichsadlers still existing:The Amtsgericht

The reichsadler of the doorway of the Amtsgericht on Sieboltstraße 2

Friedrich-Rückert-Schule

The
entrance to Friedrich-Rückert-Schule at the Ohmplatz with a detail of
the shield (dated 1936) and one of the carvings adorning the side of the
door.

Around
the corner over another doorway is this disturbing reminder...
Schoolchildren continuing to support the Nazi eagle, albeit without
swastika. The school can be seen behind this monument celebrating the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990

Erlangen Schloss in 1936 and today

The headquarters of Siemens in the Himbeerpalast then and now

The Bayerischer Hof on the site of what had been the Colosseum where Hitler had spoken several times.The Wehrmacht.marching down Heuwaagstraße in 1939

“Juden sind hier nicht erwünscht”- Jews not wanted here on Nürnberger Tor, now gone. After the Nazis' capture of power, boycotts of Jewish businesses soon took place in Erlangen, as well as the destruction of the monument dedicated to the Jewish professor and Erlanger honorary citizen Jakob Herz on the Hugenottenplatz as well as the customary burning of books. The city council, headed by the NSDAP, appointed Reichskanzler Hitler, Reichspräsident von Hindenburg and Gauleiter Streicher to honorary citizens, the main street was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Straße. During the Reichspogromnacht the Jewish families from Erlangen (between 42 and 48 persons), Baiersdorf (three persons) and Forth (seven persons) were driven together and humbled in the yard of the then town hall (Palais Stutterheim), their apartments and shops were partially destroyed and plundered, Then the women and children to the Wöhrmühle, the men in the adjudicatory jail and then to Nuremberg in prison. Anyone who could not leave Germany in the following exit wave was deported to concentration camps, where most were killed. In 1944, the city was declared "Jew-free", although a "half-Jew" protected by the policeman remained here until the end of the war. The academic community largely supported the Nazi policy, there was no active resistance from the university. In the curative and nursing home (today part of the clinic at the Europakanal) there were forced sterilizations and selections of sick for the national socialist "euthanasia murders (action T4)". From 1940 war prisoners and forced labourers were employed in the armaments companies in Erlangen. In 1944 these were already 10% of the Erlangen population. The accommodation in barracks camps as well as the treatment were humane. One of the first cities in Bavaria, Erlangen began an exhibition in the City Museum in 1983, dealing with its history in national socialism.

The
hakenkreuz over the Frauenklinik on the 'Day of Potsdam' on March 21,
1933 nearly two months after Hitler had been "jobbed into office by the
old guard" as chancellor of the Reich. This day of Hitler's visit to the
aged President Hindenburg, who wore the uniform of the Imperial Field
Marshal, was directed by Joseph Goebbels as a solemn act of state. This
propaganda event was presented as a "legitimate heir" after the end of
1918, the lost empire. On the "Day of Potsdam" almost all public
buildings were decorated with flags in the German empire with the
swastika flag.

Until
1945, more than 500 women were sterilised at this Erlanger hospital for
alleged hereditary disease. Almost all were of German nationality,
most were unmarried, childless, and 26 to 30 years old. But women near
menopause had surgery; the ages ranged from 13 (the youngest) to 48.Many
of the women were inmates of the Hospital and Nursing Home Erlangen.
Most sterilisation sentences were justified by the diagnosis
"schizophrenia" (51%). "Congenital idiocy" was given in 29% of cases as
a ground for sterilisation. Most sterilisation procedures were
performed in the first years after the Act. In 1935, for example, every
16th woman to be included in the gynaecological department underwent
forced sterilisation in the hospital. Some women were made barren by
X-rays. The operation, however, was the method of choice. The
gynaecologist squeezed the fallopian tubes with a clamp and tied them.
For the doctors, it was done quickly. For the women, however, the
operation meant a fateful intervention in body and life.

Ernst
Rudin's Institute for Genealogy and Demography became one of the
leading centres for race hygiene in Germany. Rudin, a
psychiatrist,co-authored a book with Arthur Gutt and Falk Ruttke, a
lawyer, which was a commentary on the Law for the Prevention of
Genetically Diseased Offspring passed on 14 July 1933—the Sterilisation Law. The law stated that an individual could be sterilised if he or she
suffered from a "genetic" illness including feeblemindedness,
schizophrenia, and epilepsy. What began as legislation in America had
finally also been realised in Germany. The Sterilisation Law was just the first step in measures to eliminate a
whole group of people considered to be either genetically defective or
racially inferior.

Macrakis (127-128) Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany

Wehrmachtunterkunftheim (later the American Monteith Barracks)

After the end of World War 2, US troops occupied the aerodrome Fürth-Atzenhof . They used the site continues as barracks and gave this the 11th May 1949 the name Monteith Barracks. Previously, it was initially named "Army Air Force Station Fürth" and in November 1946 called "Fürth Air Base, Germany". The grounds of the airfield was almost undamaged into the hands of Americans. The last German commander of the air base, Colonel Pollak, led the order to destroy the building not so preserved the valuable buildings. The Americans cleared initially the grounds of the all around lying plane wrecks that had been left behind because of lack of fuel by the German Luftwaffe. Then used units of the US Air Force on the pitch. Here finally were many surplus aircraft - which had no further use after the war - destroyed.

The baracks were named after First Lieutenant Jimmie Monteith who was born July 1 1917 in Low Moor, Virginia and participated as a member of the L-Company of the 16th Infantry Regiment on the landing of the Allied Forces in Normandy onD-Day in which he was killednear Colleville-sur-Mer after having collected a few scattered soldiers through a minefield, returning to his unit and finally storming a tactically important objective. Eventually German troops broke through the defensive line of the company and killed Lieutenant Monteith who was posthumously awardedthe Medal of Honour.

Dinkelsbühl

The Mühlgraben from a Nazi-era postcard and today

Dr.-Martin-Luther-Straße by Ludwig Mößler from the book Fränkische
Städtebilder. Nürnberg/ Rothenburg/ Dinkelsbühl published in 1940 and
today on the left, and from a Nazi-era postcard on the right

Looking the other way from the marktplatz towards the Hotel Goldene Rose and Protestant Church, wife and son taking a tour from the back of a horse-drawn carriage from an earlier visit.The Jewish community in Dinkelsbühl dates from the 13th century, often suffering expulsion or persecution. The most recent Jewish community existed here from 1853 to the November pogroms in 1938, after which the nineteen remaining men and women fled. More than 25 Jews were victims of the Holocaust. The town's stolperstein were set up in 2009 in front of their former houses as well as a memorial plaque at Haus Klostergasse 5 where the prayer room synagogue had been located. In December 2013, US President Barack Obama presided at the White House over the Hanukka Reception of the Dinkelsbühler Jews. The occasion was the use of a special Hanukkah chandelier created by Manfred Ansbacher, born in 1922 in Dinkelsbühl. Ansbacher, who renamed himself Anson after moving to the United States, had produced a candlestick, in which the candles stand on pure freedom statues. At the White House Hanukka Reception, the US President said that as a teenager, Anson had experienced "the horror of Kristallnacht" and lost a brother (Heinz) in the Holocaust. Anson sought "a place where he could live his life free of fear and practice his religion. For Manfred and for millions of others, America became such a place."

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Rothenburg
held a special significance for Nazi ideologists. For them, it was the
epitome of the German 'Home Town', representing all that was
quintessentially German. Throughout the 1930s the Nazi KdF organisation
(Strength through Joy )
organised regular day trips to Rothenburg from all across the Reich.
This initiative was staunchly supported by Rothenburg's citizenry – many
of whom were sympathetic to National Socialism – both for its perceived
economic benefits and because Rothenburg was hailed as "the most German
of German towns". Indeed, in October 1938 Rothenburg expelled its
Jewish citizens, much to the approval of Nazis and their supporters
across Germany. The creation of an ideal Nazi community served as a
reminder to the peoples of Germany of the way the Nazis wanted them to
live as a family and as a community; Rothenburg simply exemplified this
Nazi ideology in terms of an idealised family life. Additionally, other
German towns followed the 'example' set by Rothenburg for the Nazis,
this began a trend of Nazi German Nationalism which led to the creation
of an "ideal" Nazi community in Rothenburg. This then grew to reveal the
ideal Nazi family, as illustrated in propaganda of the time. This ideal
lifestyle was taken further when an approved upbringing for the sons of
Nazi Germany was introduced; first growing up in a Nazi or Hitler Youth
organization, then serving to protect the ideals of both Nazi Germany
and the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as a civilian or as military personnel, thus
forming the core idea of Nazi patriotism, protecting their own beliefs.
In many ways Rothenburg demonstrated key elements of Nazi ideology and
epitomised their desire to expand National Socialist thinking throughout
Germany and in all areas with German speaking people across Europe.

Certificate of Honorary citizenship given to Hitler dated March 27, 1933 and signed by the mayor, Dr. Liebermann, and which was sent in time for Hitler'sbirthday. One day, towards four o’clock in the morning, when all of us were completely worn out and scarcely listening, Hitler came out with the surprising thesis that these towns ought to reproduce the tight, crooked patterns of medieval German cities. It was a grotesque idea, to place huddled Rothenburgs or Dinkelsbühls in the broad Russian plains with their enormous available space. But Hitler could summon up reasons. The tighter the circumference of the city walls, the better the inhabitants could defend themselves. The density of medieval cities was a direct result of the insecurity and the feuds of those times, he argued, not cultural backwardness. In the immediate vicinity of these German-style cities Hitler wanted to establish industries. All the raw materials and coal you wanted were available in ample quantities, he pointed out. Armament works also had to be planned for, so that our armies posted on the borders of Asia would have no supply problems. . . .

Albert Speer, Spandau. The Secret Diaries, 1976, pp. 156–7

Dedication
of the SA-Sturmfahne by the protestant minister and NSDAP member Max
Sauerteig from Ansbach in front of the Seelbrunnen on Kapellenplatz in
1933

Looking from the other direction, comparing the damage from the war with today

The main square and rathaus during the Third Reich, in 1945, and in front today

Heinrich Himmler and SA-Führer Ernst Röhm in front of the entrance to the rathaus in 1929.

The entrance to the old rathaus within the portal behind

Soldiers swearing the oath to Hitler in front of the rathaus

Hitler leaving the Hotel Eisenhut on April 16 1935 with me in front today; the façade is unchanged...

...as is the interior for the most part- the lobby shown as it was in 1936 and today

The Marktplatz then and now; the Loewen Apotheke is still operating

Hermann Göring and Gauleiter Julius Streicher in front of the Gasthof Marktplatz during their June 23, 1935 visit whilst the centre shows Major Kraus presenting the Rothenburger Soldatenkmeradschaft flag the same year and me at the site today

Attacks
on Rothenburg's Jews began immediately after the Nazis took power. On
August 6 1933 they paraded leather dealer Leopold Westheimer through the
streets barefoot (seen here in the market square in front of Untere
Schmiedgasse) for "racial defilement" with a sign around his neck
reading “Ich Judenschwein wollte ein arisches Mädchen schänden!” (I am a Jewish pig who wanted to desecrate an Aryan girl.) Westheimer was later murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Oil paintings by Ludwig Mossler from the book Fränkische Städtebilder. Nürnberg/ Rothenburg/ Dinkelsbühl published in 1940 and today

Looking along Markusturm in 1934 towards the Röderbogen in 1934 and today

The Wehrmacht marching down Herrngasse in 1939

Further
down at Herrngasse 17 was the Headquarters of the NSDAP district
leadership, shown in a 1936 drawing by Ernst Unbehauen- note the
reichsadler beside the door.

Featured inside the building was artwork by Rothenburg Ernst
Unbehauen. Here above the door to the main hall is a Nazi eagle to
which four men are depicted raising their arms in the Hitler salute
symbolising the rising of the people, party and state
towards the idea of ​​the Führer whose bust stood on the opposite wall.
One represents "the simple man of the people," another an SA man,
followed by a political fighter and a soldier.

The Reichsarbeitsdienstlager Abteilung 6/282 Rothenburg in the mid-1930s and as it appears today. The RAD ('Reich Labour Service') was a major Nazi organisation set up to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology.

Looking from the top of the rathaus between the Röderturm and Galgenturm during the NS-zeit and today

The Weißer Turm then and now from both sides and on the right as it appeared in a 1934 Nazi propaganda image by Hans Prentzel seen from Galgengasse, bedecked with swastikas

Hitlerjugend before the Galgentor July 28, 1939

The Hegereiterhausand the Topplerschlösschen

The
Waldschwimmbad, opened with Nazi fanfare by NSDAP district leader
Zoller and Mayor Dr. Liebermann in 1935 on the outskirts of the town, is
now surrounded by suburbia. It had originally been surrounded by pine
trees with fountains, showers with fresh water inflow, a lawn for
sunbathing, and a 5,000-square-foot playground.

The Burgtor

On
May 1, 1933, in the presence of Oberbürgermeister Dr. Liebermann and
representatives of the SA, SS other NSDAP organisations, a so-called
Hitler Oak was planted within the Castle gardens by members of the
Hitler-Jugend Gefolgschaft VIII Rothenburg. Shown after the war during
the American occupation, its ultimate fate is unclear.

Also
within the Burggarten in 1934, Bavarian Prime Minister Ludwig Siebert
formally presented a
memorial by Johann Oertel commemorating Hitler's seizure of power- the
Machtergreifung. Long gone, another memorial has been erected inside the
Castle garden walls- the Jewish Memorial Stone in front of St. Blaise
Chapel which remembers Rothenburg Jews who were killed in the pogrom of
1298, erected exactly 700 years later. This event, which culminated in
the burning to death of the remaining Jews within the castle as shown at
the top of the memorial, was celebrated by the Nazis as shown in the
propaganda above. By October 10, 1938, the last seventeen Jews of
Rothenburg were driven out of the town. Their fate too remains unknown.

Judengasse then and now. This has been its name since 1371 when Jews and Christians had lived side-by side. This is the only surviving late mediaeval Jewish street in Europe. Such streets were in most mediaeval cities of German-speaking countries which were the enclosed living quarters of Jews who were mostly traders. Such accommodation also considered the religious principles of the Jews themselves, who sought to fulfil the commandment to live no more than a thousand steps from the synagogues.

Judenstrasse between the wars and from the same site. My bike is shown in front of house no. 10 which still contains a Jewish ritual bath, known as a mikvah, which is still filled with groundwater.

The Klingentor and Feuerleins Erker on Klingengasse

Little Drake Winston in front of the Georgsbrunnen dating from 1608. On the right is another fountain nearby beside the Hotel Bären on Hofbronnengasse which was the site
of a 1929 battle between the SA and members of the Sozialdemokraten

The Goldenes Fass during the Nazi era and today. Here in November 1937 NSDAP-Zelle 7 met where its cell-leader Kathmann asked rhetorically what would become of Germany if there were only praying, but no fighting men had been available.

The Gasthaus Schwarzes Lamm then and now- November 9, 1937 commemorations had paid especial tribute to "the skilful leader of God," the Hereditary Farm Law, the four-year plan and the Winterhilfswerk.

The Tauber bridge, blown up by German troops in 1945. Rebuilding took a good year and it was reopened on 10 November 1956.

The Rödertor from a Nazi-era print on the left and from the other side within the walls showing the Gasthaus zum Breiterle then and now

On
February 4, 1936 Nazi foreign group leader Wilhelm Gustloff was
assassinated in Davos, Switzerland. He had joined the Nazi Party in
1929, expending much effort into the distribution of the antisemitic
propaganda book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that
members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the
Swiss NSDAP/AO, for libel. Gustloff was shot and killed in 1936 by David
Frankfurter, a Croatian Jewish student incensed by Gustloff's
antisemitic activism. This would play into Nazi propaganda as more
supposed proof of of a "conspiracy of
world Jewry". As an aside, Gustloff would later give his name to the MV
Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship which would be sunk on 30
January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea while evacuating
German civilians, officials and military personnel from Gdynia
(Gotenhafen), its 9,400 victims making it the largest loss of life in a
single ship sinking in history.

Franconian
Gauleiter Julius Streicher chose, on his 51st birthday, to use this
incident to once again inflame anti-Semitism for which he would later be
hanged at Nuremberg. Above is the plaque that was placed in the
Rödertor with NSDAP
district leader Karl Steinacker shown at its dedication in February 12
1936. The plaque read

"World
history mentions the names of the people who perished at the Jews.
Their tragic end is a terrible reminder for the people who are still
alive. 12 February 1936. Julius Streicher "

Other such Judentafeln were placed in the town's mediaeval gates:

Those at Klingentor, Galgentor and Spitaltor respectively.

The holes from the plaque are still evident at the latter

In
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, anti-Semitism became a central component of
the tourist experience. In 1937, the town erected four wooden,
handcrafted plaques on its medieval gates. They bore stereotypical
images of ‘the Jew’ and a number of anti-Semitic texts, which visitors
could purchase in the form of postcards. KdF holidaymakers were greeted
there with speeches about local anti-Semitic agitation in the Middle
Ages.

American
soldiers in front of the Spitalbastei on April 17, 1945. We went on a
'Nightwatchman's tour' and were told the incredible story of how it had
been saved- The month before, German soldiers were stationed in
Rothenburg to defend it. On March 31, bombs were dropped over Rothenburg
by 16 planes, killing 37 people and destroying 306 houses, 6 public
buildings, 9 watchtowers, and over 2,000 feet of the wall. The U.S
Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy knew about the historic
importance and beauty of Rothenburg- his mother had visited the town
before the Great War and sketched as many scenes as possible. When she
returned to the United States, her impressionable son would study the
picture of the city that hung in the McCloy living room and vow to one
day visit himself. Now, he was responsible for saving it. He ordered
US Army General Jacob L. Devers not use artillery in taking Rothenburg.
Battalion commander Frank Burke (Medal of Honour) ordered six soldiers
of the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division to march into Rothenburg on a
three-hour mission and negotiate the surrender of the town. First
Lieutenant Noble V. Borders of Louisville, Kentucky; First Lieutenant
Edmund E. Austingen of Hammond, Indiana; Private William M. Dwyer of
Trenton, New Jersey; Private Herman Lichey of Glendale, California;
Private Robert S. Grimm of Tower City, Pennsylvania; and Private Peter
Kick of Lansing, Illinois were sent on the mission. When stopped by a
German soldier, Private Lichey who spoke fluent German and served as the
group’s translator, held up a white flag and explained, “We are
representatives of our division commander. We bring you his offer to
spare the city of Rothenburg from shelling and bombing if you agree not
to defend it. We have been given three hours to get this message to you.
If we haven’t returned to our lines by 1800 hours, the town will be
bombed and shelled to the ground.” The local military commander Major
Thömmes gave up the town, ignoring the order of Adolf Hitler for all
towns to fight to the end and thereby saving it from total destruction
by artillery. American troops of the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th
Division occupied the town on April 17, 1945, and in November 1948
McCloy was named Honourable Protectorate of Rothenburg. After the war,
the residents of the city quickly repaired the bombing damage. Donations
for the rebuilding were received from all over the world and the
rebuilt walls feature commemorative bricks with donor names (hence the numerous plaques from Japanese).

What remained of Galgengasse after the war and its reconstruction

Ellingen

Hitler driving through the town towards the Pleinfelder Tor and the rathaus, then and now

The schloss from a 1944 postcard and the Schlosskirche after the war with an American GI surveying the looted art recovered from the Nazis, and today

Allersberg

The church on former Adolf-Hitler-Platz and today. The war saw 75% of Allersberg destroyed.

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